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THREE BIG DAYS
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Richmond County Fair Next Week
The Eighth Richmond County Fair Will
Open Next Wednesday Morning.
No Parade. More Attention Cen
tered on Exhibits. Def our Greater
Shows for Midway. Athletic Day
Friday.
The annual Richmond County Fair will begin on Wednesday of
next week, October 25th, and continue for three days. Contrary to the
usual custom, there will be no street parade this year. Instead, the
Fair officers are centering their attention upon the exhibit end of the
Fair; and money that would be spent on a parade will this year.be spent
in giving more and larger premiums.
Secretary A. G. Corpcning has had the buildings overhauled and
put in shape for receiving the exhibits. Exhibitors are asked to bring
their entries so that they can be put in place not later than Tuesday,
24th. In order to facilitate the handling and display of these exhibits,
the grounds will be closed Tuesday to all but those bringing or entering
exhibits. Heretofore, it has been the habit of numbers of people lo wan
der over the building while the exhibits were being arranged, and by do
ing this not only evaded paying an entrance but got in the way of those
at work.
The Defour Greater Shows have been engaged to make up the
Midway. The shows will probably reach here Sunday and begin early
Midway. The shows will probably reach here Sunday and begin early
Monday getting the Midway in place.
Last year the agricultural exhibits and needlework and artcrafts de
partments and Home Economics were exceptionally line, but the live
stock departments were woefully lacking. It is hoped that this will be
remedied this year.
On Friday the schools of the county are expected to send teams to
compete in the various athletic contests. These begin at 10 o'clock Fri
day morning in front of the Main building. Friday afternoon the Filer
be and Rockingham high school football teams will play their annual
game, this on the new athletic field.
So keep in mind the fact that next week is Fair Week for Richmond
County and not only arrange to come and see what your county is pro
during, but make a point to enter an exhibit of some kind yourself. Alto
Kether for a bigger and better Fair next week.
Democratic Speaking.
The. Democratic nomtqees will
speak at Mangum Oct, 19th at
10, Covington,, at 3, Norman Oct.
20th at 3, Elierbe at 7:30, Rober
del No. 1 Oct. 23rd at 7:30, Led
better's 24th at 7:30, Pee Dee No.
1 25th at 7:30, Hoffman 26th at
3, Roberdel No. 2 27th at 7:30,
Crosland school 30th at 3, Zion
31st at 7.30, Steele's Mills Nov.
1st at 7:30, Midway Nov. 2nd at
730, Hamlet 3rd at 7:30, Rock
ingham courthouse Nov. 6th at
7:30.
Marriage Licenses.
Oct, 12:, Eugene Stanton
Laura Burt, colored. .
Oct 12: Royal Tyson and
Ingram, colored.
Oct. 14: Connie Morrison
Flossie Hailey, colored.
Oct 14: Fulton Jackson and Bet
sey Simms, colored.
Oct 18: James P. Johnson and
Martha Smith, colored.
and
Lily
and
New Business Firm.
Minor T. Hinson will gi.ve up his
position in the Savings Bank the
last of this month, and wll go to
Hamlet -and assist in the Gai ner &
Hinson Co., store for two or more
months in order to familiarize him
self more with the clothing and
haberdashery business. He and T.
C. Leak expect to open a similar
business in Rockingham shortly af
ter the New Year.
Zioa School.
The Parent-Teachers association
of the Zion school will give an
oyster supper Friday night, 20th, at
the school for the benefit of the ath
letic association. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Bold Thieves.
Several homes in Rockingham
were either robbed Monday after
noon and night or attempts at rob
bery made. The home of W. N.
Everett was entered during the af
ternoon and a gold watch stolen, to
gether with a five dollar bill from
Mrs. Payne's purse. Later in the
afternoon a strange negro was seen
to jump from a window of the H.
C Wall residence, but it is not
known whether he had gotten any
thing. That same night Mrs. Rae-
ford Terry, who was in the rear of
her home, heard some one tipping
about in the front of the house.
She ran from the rear and gave
alarm, but when help came no one
was found there, nor apparently
had anything been misplaced.
Shown at The Garde n theatre,
Friday and Saturday of this week,
moving pictures or cornerstone
laying Oct. 11th.
Farm
Demonstration
Department
W. N. BARTON
Oflkt In CMrikwM, I
Prices of Sweet Potatoes.
Three men in the county have
produced approximately 600 bushels
of .sweet potatoes this year, and
each constructed a curing house in
which to keep them. I figure that
6,000 bushels will just about supply
the demand of the three towns,
Rockingham, Hamlet and Elierbe,
not including the hilled potatoes
that will be for sale by small pro
ducers. One farmer who has five
acres and no curing house, has been ;
offered 50 cents per bushel in the .
field. I understand that potatoes j
are being sold on the local markets i
to merchants at 50 cents, and at
digging time, when the "dumping" j
sale begins, they will probably j
bring 25 cents. The curing house
man can wait 'till the "dumping"
sale is over. His potatoes will keep
until next spring and he can even
ship potatoes north and west-, but
without a knowledge of the needs j
in the various markets at different j
times, he may make some mis-i
takes even if he deals with reliable
commission merchants. He is just
as apt to get a bill for freight
charges as he is to get a check for
the potatoes, especially if he ships
to a market already glutted.
Intelligent Distributiba Only
Remtedy.
No individual grower can afford
to keep salesmen in all the outside
markets to sell his potatoes. Ten
counties in North Carolina, how
ever, with hundreds of thousands of
bushels of potatoes, all eountiws fed
erated in one organization, has a
hird, reliable salesman in each of
350 big northern and western cities
and these 350 salesmen have ap
proximately 10,000 carlot customers
who buy sweet potatoes. Each rep
resentative keeps the North Caro
ed each day by wire, the needs of
his market and the price the mar
ket will pay. Hence the head of the
federation knows each day where
potatoes are wanted worse and
where they will bring the best price
and knows how many cars each
market will take.
It can be seen, therefore, that the
only way to sell sweet potatoes is
through a co-operative marketing
association which contrails enough
potatoes t justify such methods of
selling.
Dont, therefore, produce sweet
potatoes more than for home use
next year unless you expect to sell
through such an organization.
Banks have agreed to finance co
operative sweet potato curing
houses for co-operative marketing
of the product next year. If you
want this service you can get it by
applying promptly. Nobody is go
ing to over persuade you to take
this step now. Sir Weevil will at
tend tj that just a little latefif
your eyes are not already fully
open to the. situation.
Everybody bring an exhibit to
the County Fair.
SIXTEEN PAGES
This issue of the Pott-Oiptch
consists of 16 pages. Your attention
is invited to the advertisements on
each page.
J. A. Mclntyre Dead.
Mr. J. A. Mclntyre died at Rober
del No. 2 Wednesday and was bur
ied at Pizpah October 19th. He
was 67 years old and had been
paralyzed for sometime.
Mrs. D. H. Chance Dead.
- Mrs. Bessie Lee Chance, wife of
D. M. Chance, of Route 5, died
Tuesday and was buried at Green
Lake church Wednesday. She was
25 years old and is survived by her
husband and two small children.
The sympathy of their friends go
out to them in their sorrow.
A Man Hunt
On Thursday night of last week
the store or commissar of J. D.
Covington, near Elierbe, was enter
ed and a quantity of goods hauled
away. It is understood that two
Smith boys and a man named John
Ward were recognized. At any rate
a warrant was sent to Robeson
county for the arrest of Watt
Smith, and he was placed under
$500 bond for his appearance at
Rockingham for trial October 20th.
The other two Smith boys, Eugene
and Clay, and John Ward were not
located.
Tuesday morning word came to
Sheriff McDonald that the men
we're near Long's store, on the1
Montgomery county line. Officers
went there and finally traced the
car to a point in Beaver Dam near
Naked creek; the men were located,
and -upon their refusal to halt were
fired upon. They had partially dis
mantled their car in the woods. The
officers brought it to town.
Tuesday night the Sheriff receiv
ed a message saying that the men
had held up Dr. Caddell near Hoff
man and had tried to get his car.
This, however, later proved to be a
mistake. The Sheriff Wednesday
morning secured bloodhounds from
Raeford, but the dogs could not
strike a trail. And so up to today
(Thursday) neither of the three had
been caught. As to whether they
are guilty as charged remains to
be seen.
Lecture at M. E. Church.
Rev. Mr. Welch, a minister of
the Western North Carolina con
ference, will give a short lecture,
together with lantern slide views
of Palestine, in the Methodist
church Sunday evening at 7:30
o'clock. The public is cordially
invited to attend this service.
Mr. Welch has recently returned
from Palestine, and his lecture
covers that part of the country
which he visited.
Registration
The registration books for Uie
November 7th election opened Oc
tober 5th, and will remain open
until October 28th. If your name is
already on the books, you do not
have to register again. If you have
become 21 years of age since the
last election, or will be 21 on or be
fore November 7th, you are entitled
to register.
Prays Fjar Show.
Evangelist Raymond Browning,
who held a meeting in Rockingham
several years ago, has been holding
one at Burlington recently. On the
night of October 13th a musical
comedy show filled an engagement
at the Burlington th"'re, and as a
rebuke to the shr , ,.ic Evangelist
carried his tent congregation to the
front of the theatre building and
held a prayer and praise service.,
Clark's Circus.
The first railroad shows, or circus
to visit this section this season will
be the M. L. Clark & Son's circus.
This aggregation, traveling in 12
cars, will exhibit at Hamlet Mon
day, October 23rd, with two per
formances, at 2 in afternoon and 8
at night.
The circus is at Louisburg Octo
ber 21st, at Hamlet 23rd and Dunn
the 24th.
Cornerstone Pictures.
The moving picture of the cor!
nerston laying exercises at the
courthouse and high school build
ings in Rockingham, taken by
the Fox camera men Oct. 11th,
will be shown at The Garden
theatre Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 20th and 21st. This is a
picture. -that every one should
see. See yourself in the movies.
Some of us will see ourselves
then as others see us.
Confederate Monument.
The U. D. C chapter of Rocking
ham is launching a movement
looking to the erection of a hand
some monument to the memory of
the Richmond county men who
gave their lives in the various wars
It is to perpetuate the' deeds of our
Confederate and World War heroes
and of our countymen who may
have served in other wars.
It is a most commendable move,
and one that the people of the
county will surely endorse. The
chapter has placed Mrs. W. P.
Webb at the head of the monument
committee with Miss Johnsie Cam
eron as treasurer. " . ,
The ladies are setting $5,000 .aa
their goal; they already have
as a starter, not counting two rfuti"'
scriptions made this week $5.00
each from John W. Covington, Jr.,
and John W. C. Entwistle. They
want- 250 men and women of the
county to give $10.00 each to the
fund, and the names and amounts
of the donors will be published. So
let's start the ball to rolling; send
in your contribution to Miss John
sie Cameron, treasurer, Rocking
ham, and let's make next week's
list show a healthy number of
names. Don't wait on your neigh
bor, but see who will head the list
first. Let's go!
AT THE GARDEN
FRIDAY, OCT. 20th.
Ben Turpin in
HOME TALENT'
Also Fox News
AT THE STAR THEATRE
FRIDAY, OCT. 20th
"SATURDAY NIGHT"
Also A One-Reel Comedy
Adm. 10 and 25c.
I Siki and Beckett.
Battling SHti", the Senegalese con
queror of Georges Carpentier, will
meet Joe Beckett, the English
heavyweight, in a 20-round battle
for the heavyweight championship
of Europe in London November 23.
The Star Theatre Rockingham, n. c.
For the week of Oct. 23-28.
Monday, Oct. 32rd
Carl Laemmle presents Mae Murray and Rodolph Valentino in
. "THE DELICIOUS LITTLE DEVIL"
Also a comedv "Who's Little Wife Are You?"
Tuesday, Oct. 24th.
Adolph Zukor presents Agnes Ayres in
"THE LANE THAT HAS NO TURNING"
Also a one-reel comedy
Wednesday, Oct. 25th.
Conrad Veidt and Ldya de Putti in
"ABOVE ALL LAW" -
Also a comedy -"Ring-Tail Romance."
Thursday, Oct. 26th.
David Powell and Ann Forest in
"LOVE'S BOOMERANG"
Friday, Oct. 27th.
Jesse L. Lasky presents Thomas Meighan and Mildred Harris in
"A PRINCE THERE WAS" A1 comedy
Saturday, Oct. 28th.
"TIMBER QUEEN," NO.
"Bar Cross War" -a Western "Convict No. 13", a comedy
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